Thunderball (1965)

I watched this movie on Amazon Prime.

So... I had seen some of the older Bond movies, including this one, a long long time ago. Like about 20 years ago, renting them from the Library as a kid. Most of them I hardly remembered but I wanted to finally start my journey of going back and watching all the old Bond movies again. Some a long over due re watch, others seeing for the first time.

I want to like this movie more... I really do. But this is honestly a prime example of how I feel about most of the older, Pre-Brosnan Bond movies. It's just kinda boring. I watched this movie... yet I struggle to really remember it well even a day or two later.
it's slow, meh... and the underwater fight stuff is dull and just a gratuitous way of them trying to show off their new technology at that time.
I know this movie is as a big downgrade in many ways coming off the heels of Bond fan darling, Goldfinger... and yeah well it is a downgrade, I do say that I felt similar about that movie. I know it's an unpopular opinion but I'm really meh on Goldfinger also.
From Russia With Love was a great old Bond film but I struggle to get into any of them after that much.

This one, I give 3 out of 5 stars cause it's... just OK.
I don't dislike or hate it, but I don't really feel any desire to go back and watch this one again. Unlike the Brosnan Bond movies I watched over and over on VHS when I was younger, I can still pop those in any time and love them. Thunderball for me is more just... a kind a soft rumbleball.

Mistake Status: No plans to do the Bond movies except the Brosnan era. At least for the foreseeable future.

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